Improvement in carding-engines



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D. T. GAGE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASYSIGNOR- TO HIMSELF AND M. A. FURBUSH, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARDlNG-ENGINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 4 1.462, dated VFebruary 2, 1864.

ln order to enable others familiar with machinery of this class to make and apply my in- E vention, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation.

`On reference to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specitication, Figure 1 is a side view ofsufticient of a carding-enplan view of Fig. 1 and Fig. 3 a detached sectional view of portions of my improvement.

Similarletters refer to similar parts throughout the several views. 1

A andA' are portions of the two side frames of a carding-engine. B is the usual main card-cylinder; G, the dofling-cylinder; D, the cylinder which is technically termed 3 the licher-in, and E are the feedfrolls.

The above-named parts arecommon to ordinary carding-engines, and are too well known to those familiar with machines ot' that class to need description.

To one end of one of the feed-rolls E is secured a cogwheel, F, the teeth of which gear into H; On the pinion G are inclined teeth, forming a bevel-wheel, which gears into the beveled pinion I on the end of a shaft, K, the

latter having its bearing in the hub or sleeve Q of the bracket H. The opposite end of this shaft K turns in a bracket, L, secured to the side frame, A, of the machine, and derives its motion from the shaft of the dofting-roller through the medium'of suitable bevel-wheels; or the shaft K may be driven by any suitable system of gearing from any working part of the machine. It will be seen that the portion of the sleeve h which turns in the bracket H is eccentric with the portion ot the shaft which turns in the sleeve, and that on turning the sleeve in one direction by means of the handle z' the pinion I will be thrown out of gear with the wheel G, as seen in Fig. 2, while on turning the handle in a contrary direction the pinion I will be thrown into gear with the wheel G, asv seen in Fig. 3

In operating with carding-engines itis of ,.the utmost importance that every facility gine to illustrate my improvement; Fig. 2, a

should be aiforded to the attendant for stopping the movement of the feedrolls and ot arresting the progress of the lap 7 toward the licker-in. lt will be seen without further description that the desired facility for accomplishin g this object is afforded by the device described above, the handle t' being in a proper position to be readily seized by the attendant.

I claim as my invention and desire to seeure by Letters Patent- The eccentric sleeve h,.with its handlei and the shaft K, the whole being arranged and opl erating substantially as set forth, in conjunction with the system of gearing herein described, or any equivalent to the same, for

i stopping and starting the feed-rolls of ca-rdthose of the pinion G, which runs loosely on a l pin secured to the projection a. of the bracket h., which is provided with a handle, i, and

which is arranged to turn in the projection m y ing-engines.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specitica-tion in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

I). T. GAGE.

Witnesses:

HENRY HowsoN, CI-IAs. WELDING. 

